Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interviewed on her 75th birthday as she sat on a sofa draped with a tiger skin in her pink-walled London apartment, Elinor ("It") Glyn, British novelist who writes nowadays only when she has "passionate thoughts that will help humanity," explained: "I have an immense passion for tigers. When I go to a zoo I have a most peculiar effect on them...
...five classical Greek statues, one ascribed to Praxiteles, which have been a star turn at the World of Tomorrow. Too precious to run the risk of torpedoes is the first group of originals that has left Greece since Lord Elgin carried off the treasures of the Acropolis to London's British Museum more than a century ago. Premiums on the five statues' insured value of $2,000,000 presumably will be paid by the Metropolitan...
Married. Frederick Penrose Tennyson, 26, cinema director, great-grandson of Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Nova Pilbeam, 19, British cinemactress (Little Friend, Nine Days a Queen); in London...
Died. Sir William Jackson Pope, 69, famed British chemist whose experiments enabled the Allies to produce mustard gas in quantity during World War I; in London, England...
...London's Catholic Herald rounded up some wartime Catholic views. Eric Gill, scraggle-bearded author-artist who wears a monk's gown, urged a quick peace, arguing that the Allied war aims are: continuation of Versailles policies, contraceptive control of the German population, making the world safe for Big Business. Letitia Fairfield, sister of Novelist Rebecca West: "The Catholic press will cut no ice morally so long as they make persecutions of the church the test of right and wrong in international affairs." Author George Glasgow: "Stemming atheistic bolshevism and bringing Europe back to Almighty God will...